--- title: Nevertheless, in 2010, Iceland was reported by Guinness World Record… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics description: Nevertheless, in 2010, Iceland was reported by Guinness World Records as "the Greenest Country", reaching the highest score by the Environmental Sustainability Index, which measures a country's water use, biodiversity and adoption of clean energies, with a score of 93.5/100. 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Nevertheless, in 2010, Iceland was reported by Guinness World Records as "the Greenest Country", reaching the highest score by the Environmental Sustainability Index, which measures a country's water use, biodiversity and adoption of clean energies, with a score of 93.5/100. **Who acts:** World Records, Environmental Sustainability Index, country · **What happens:** report, reach, measure, use, adopt · **To what, where:** Iceland, 2010, highest score, water use, clean energies This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iceland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (World Records, Environmental Sustainability Index, country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Iceland:368 # text = Nevertheless, in 2010, Iceland was reported by Guinness World Records as "the Greenest Country", reaching the highest score by the Environmental Sustainability Index, which measures a country's water use, biodiversity and adoption of clean energies, with a score of 93.5/100. 1 Nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Iceland Iceland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 Guinness Guinness PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Records record NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Greenest Greenest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 Environmental environmental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 Sustainability sustainability NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Index index NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 biodiversity biodiversity NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 adoption adoption NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 energies energy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 93.5/100 93.5/100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | World Records | Iceland | | 2010 | | as the Greenest Country; nevertheless *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as country=Attribute | | 2 | **reach** | gerund | World Records *not said here* | the highest score | | | | by the Environmental Sustainability Index | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent score=Theme | | 3 | **measure** | present | the Environmental Sustainability Index | a country's water use and biodiversity and adoption of clean energies and a score of 93.5/100 | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme use=Value | | 4 | **use** | | a country | | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **adopt** | | | clean energies | | | | | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Iceland», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 367](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iceland/367/) - next →: [sentence 369](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iceland/369/) - ↑ back to [Iceland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iceland/)